Magnolia+B+Stickies

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 * Please enter each** **Post IT note, according to the topic and number of dots.**


 * Ex:** **Organizational Change Policies: 19 dots** **and then list each stickie comment.**


 * These comments** **are proactive solutions to overcoming a barrier or restraint that informs your role as a coach in the reculturing schools around 21st Century change.**

PBL Solutions:

 * 1) Tie projects to a real need in the building, district, or community
 * 2) Visit schools virtually or physically to observe teachers who are successful. How do they do it?
 * 3) Survey teachers on what they know about PBL and then plan a cohort or discussion group to meet the gap in information
 * 4) Provide training or support for PBL
 * 5) Model PBL for teachers that are resistant
 * 6) Bring in a professional to speak about PBL, teachers are more likely to listen to someone outside of the district
 * 7) If students are lacking basic skills to complete the PBL, include those skills that are needed within the PBL
 * 8) Create an institute to inform the board and administration of PBL
 * 9) Have a technology exp. to show/display projects, invite stakeholders
 * 10) Get parents involved by making PBL projects accessible via electronic means or by presenting to them specifically
 * 11) Monthly PBL competition to create excitement and enthusiasm

Professional Development Solutions:
1. If there is a lack of funding, look for grants and outside donations 2. Hire sufficient tech integration personnel 3. ask to be on Act 48 planning committee 4. provide more time 5. collaborate with other coaches 6. provide summer workshops 7. do quick simple tutorials during informal training time 8. establish district best-practices 9. show teachers how PBL can integrate standards 10. pd should be an ongoing process: 1. planning, 2. design, 3. reflection 11. student helpers for teachers 12. Technology Tasting Day 13. revisit job descriptions to link with district goals 14. state objectives during pd sessions 15. making sure teachers know what is available 16. teachers showcase good examples of tech integration and PBL 17. pair reluctant teachers with experienced tech users 18. use substitutes to meet in smaller groups 19. increase collaboration between teachers, possibly online

Support Goals Solutions:

 * 1) Stay positive whenever a problem occurs. Come with solutions!!!!
 * 2) Create PD that models PBL to reinforce goal
 * 3) Make small victories a BIG deal! Publish and inform
 * 4) Seek corporate support for monetary issues that relate to goal support
 * 5) Develop teacher coaches for each department
 * 6) Cover for a teacher who is resistant to change so that he might observe a class making use of PBL
 * 7) Promote sharing by pairing a tech-savvy teacher with a resistant teacher
 * 8) Develop a culture of sharing. Get a few teachers who are really using PBL to share their work on a wiki and make it available to all at PD or staff meetings

Time Solutions:

 * 1) Have teachers focus on making small changes that make a big impact. Seeing changes will fuel the fire to make more changes happen in a timely manner
 * 2) Collaborate more so teachers do not have to reinvent the wheel
 * 3) Create professional learning communities for sharing best practices that are accessible anywhere any time
 * 4) Flexible scheduling and hybrid blocks/periods
 * 5) Database of online resources to maximize effectiveness and prevent reteaching
 * 6) Work with the willing first and keep it simple
 * 7) Create virtual coaching opportunities via wiki's, blogs, Elluminate, etc...
 * 8) Summer institutes
 * 9) Create consortium that focus on PD both for internal purposes and eternal purposes

Administration Solutions:

 * 1) Admin will focus on fewer goals vs. spreading time thin
 * 2) Act upon district vision
 * 3) Present information at school board meetings
 * 4) Allow more teacher involvement
 * 5) Mandate district change
 * 6) Actively define district vision
 * 7) Ongoing yearly and monthly goals
 * 8) Give administrators tech tools they can use so they can model tech.
 * 9) Hold teachers accountable


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